Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Sightings for Tuesday March 16th

Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Morgan Arboretum: About 120-150 Snow Geese (oies des neiges) flew over the Arboretum at about 2:00pm, could probably be heard and seen from almost every corner of the property - Chris Cloutier

Baie-du-Febvre: More than 15,000 Snow geese in the fields in front of the village
Oies des neiges, plus de 15 000 individus dans les champs juste en face du village - Rosaire Lemay

quai de Rivière-Ouelle (dock): 1.5 hrs observation – 1 Red-throated loon (early winter plumage in flight headed west), 1 Black duck (in flight headed east), 1 Black scoter (m)in flight headed west), 7 Common goldeneye (2 small groups in flight headed east), 18 Common merganser (sitting and in flight headed east), 3 Ring-billed gulls, 12 Herring gulls, 25 Iceland gulls, 12 Great black-backed gulls, 3 Black-legged kittiwake (together, in flight haeden west)
En 1heure 30 minutes j'ai observé: Plongeon catmarin 1 (Hâtif! Plumage d'hiver, en vol vers l'ouest), Canard noir 1 (en vol vers l'est), Macreuse noire 1 (mâle en vol vers l'ouest), Garrot à oeil d'or 7 (Deux petis groupes en vol ver l'est), Grand Harle 18 (Posés et en vol vers l'est), Goéland à bec cerclé 3, Goéland argenté 12, Goéland arctique 25, Goéland marin 12, Mouette tridactyle 3 (Ensemble, en vol vers l'ouest!) - Jean-François Rousseau

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